The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 1
Once upon a time there was a King’s son who was engaged to a Princess whom he dearly loved.
Who acts: King · What happens: engage, love · To what, where: son, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 son | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 engaged | aux:pass |
| 13 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 son | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Princess | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 engaged | obl |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 loved | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 loved | nsubj |
| 19 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 20 loved | advmod |
| 20 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past · passive | a King's son | to a Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | past | King | a Princess | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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